Current Events

So, those two clowns from Reuters who fell for the Burmese government's trap are going to spend the next seven years in prison. Despite the way that their sympathizers are trying to spin it, this has nothing to do with "freedom of the press", and everything to do with the press considering themselves to be above the law. I feel somewhat sorry for two reporters, as I'm sure it was made tacitly clear to them that getting the news by any method, legal or not, was a job expectation. Hopefully this will have an inhibitory effect on an out-of-control profession.

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Apparently, people putting cameras inside toilets is a problem in South Korea. This is probably one of the very few aspects of daily life where North Koreans are better off.

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Ol' Maduro's willing to risk a whole six dollars of his own money on his scheme to stabilize the Venezuelan economy. What a stand-up guy!

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Fishmonger arrested for sticking googly eyes on fish. Srsly. My hat is off to him for thinking up something that I'd not come up with in a million years.